Scribbles and Bits

Future Events: Boston Dyke March

2026-05-04T22:13:47Z

We will be tabling with Boston Dyke March next month, on Friday June 5! Stay tuned and mark your calendars, for some unfathomable reason the queers are getting rowdy!

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LB is tabling at Hampshire Pride!

2026-04-30T01:20:08Z

This Saturday, May 2, we'll be tabling at Hampshire Pride in the Armory Street parking lot behind Thornes Marketplace, in Northampton MA! We'll be at the white booth, #29, and we're sharing the space with Bee Leake!

We'll be loaded up with all sorts of goodies. Hope to see you there! We also will be offline once we leave tomorrow morning, so if you need to reach us, call, text, or wait.

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The Crazy Boys Series

2026-04-21T15:39:24Z

Rogan: two years ago, I got hit with a six-month period of memory work unprecedented in the ten years we’d been doing it. ( Because it involved someone good, and now he’s getting a project. )

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Sensitivity Reads

2026-04-18T17:22:24Z

Rogan: I like doing sensitivity reads.

I don’t get those jobs super often, and I wouldn’t want them to be my main thing (there’s a reason it’s expensive), but I’ve discovered I really enjoy hearing other people’s ideas and acting as a sounding board to help bring out their best! It makes me happy. The people who hire me bring so much heart and hard work to the table, and they often have really creative ideas that I never would’ve thought of! It’s wonderful when that happens.

There can be a lot of anxiety around sensitivity reading, I think. There’s this image of going to some knowledgeable person who tells you self-righteously how wrong and awful you are. But that’s not how I see it; I see it as a collaboration, me working to help someone do what they’re already doing. We state our hard limits on the webpage, and by the time someone’s gone through all the trouble of reading that, contacting us, and paying me, they’ve taken that into account. (And if they didn’t, it’ll come up long before money’s changed hands.) And if it’s not a hard limit for me, my reaction is generally curiosity and excitement. More multi in the arts! Woo yeah!

I definitely used to be more sanctimonious about this, long before I did this for pay. (Indeed, part of why I CREATED that “hire me” page was, I wanted to stop people from asking me to survey their Jekyll/Hyde murderer multi characters for free. It worked!) But I’ve mellowed as I’ve aged, in large part because I have read enough good multi stuff that I no longer feel that starving urge for Perfection Or Nothing. You don’t need the One Perfect Story when you have a bunch of good enough stories already! I have Paprika, and the Book of Autonomancy, and Mefisto in Onyx, and all the rest of it. I’m no longer culturally starving! (It’s also a nice side effect of Sneak running pluralstories.)

I also have more realistic expectations of what fiction can and cannot do in the world. Nobody who has hired me has been a blockbuster creator of the next Sybil. They’re folks who make nice little webcomics or play D&D. They are not responsible for single-handedly removing ableism from our society via the power of story. Come on. They don’t want or need a politically expedient parable of plurality, and neither do I. It’s the friction of our experience and hopes meeting reality that gives stories their charge, that grate of imperfection and frailty that comes with being a being. The agony of the relationships in Pipe Up! make it way more compelling than if the singlet friend was perfectly, utterly accepting right off the bat, or if he was just not worth the emotional investment. But that messiness? Oh man, that messiness makes it POWERFUL.

My job isn’t to remove the mess. It’s to go, “ooooh, you know what would make this mess EVEN STRONGER...”

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Plural History in Amherst

2026-03-31T15:05:27Z

Two bits of news!

First of all, we will be presenting a shortened form of our many-selved history lecture (along with, by request, a brief talk about how we came to do what we do and what it entails) at a little trauma and dissociation conference, from 3-7 pm on Friday, April 3, at Franklin Patterson Hall at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.

The second thing is, the essay I owe y’all will likely be late. Sorry guys. Ny died, Meagan got convicted of first-degree bullshit, this month has been challenging.

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Potential Future Projects We're Kicking Around

2026-03-19T04:09:07Z

Finally finishing the Reverend Alpert book, which has been stalled at around 80% completion for YEARS now
Expanding Quick'n'Dirty Plural History into a proper paperback, because the zine sells shockingly well for such a niche subject, we have a lot more info now (though not on the newest slapfights, ha, no, we're talking older, cross-cultural stuff, and spirit marriage/headmate relationship stuff) (if you want us to wade into the hottest new plural communities on Discord or Bsky or what the fuck ever, you're going to have to pay us real money, and in ADVANCE)
Finally kicking Rogan's ass into inking Loyal Forever, a comic that involves the muscle car beloved from Crazy Boys Get Money)
Expanding Xenogals into a book-length thing, the Mori and Rawlin version of Alter Boys In Love (Xenogals in Love?)

Oh no, all but Loyal Forever are big beefy books. But well, the Xenogals and Plural History ones would replace their floppies, and Reverend Alpert would probably end up a short run anyway.

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Last Chance for Ebooks; get 'em before they're GONE!

2026-03-17T03:40:12Z

Mori: Heads up y'all, I'm doing our tax prep, which means I'm going through all our titles, seeing what sold and what didn't, and deciding what gets weeded. In a week or so, I'm going to be removing the following ebook listings from sale, so if you want them, now is the time to get them:

The Homeless Year (sells great on paper still, that'll stay)
Alter Boys in Love
Coming In Or Staying Out (also sells great on paper still, will stay on paper)

(Rogan's Aphasia is also barely hanging in there, has been for years; for some reason every once in a while people will buy another copy of it, just BARELY keeping it in the running.)

(Also I figure, just as a note, we do this every year. I tally up everything what sold, and shit that sold less than five copies gets weeded. I'm trying to get us more regular about saying when we're removing something from print, since some folks might miss out otherwise. And hey, if enough copies sell, it'll stay up for other folks!)

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LB tables at Boskone this weekend!

2026-02-12T00:05:58Z

This weekend, February 13-15, we will be tabling at Boskone 63, at the Westin Boston Seaport District, Boston, Massachusetts. Tabling hours will be 4-8 Friday, 10-6 Saturday, and 10-3 Sunday. To make up for the sick day at Arisia, we will be debuting four new titles, creek don't rise! All of them are short stories, and two of them contain all-new material available nowhere else (yet): Sacrificial Stories of the Neverwas, a collection of imaginary folk takes on the nature of sacrifice, and Kayfabe in the Coliseum, a pseudo Greco-Roman tale of prizefighting and metanarrative.

The other two are a zine version of Crazy Boys Get Money (with an illustration I'm proud of!) and Time is a Mobius Strip, which is a compilation of two short stories, "Ana, Chronistic", and "Chrone," originally published in Flights of Reality under the name "Better Luck Next Time."

All of the stories have been edited for print. Hope to see you there!

EDIT from Rogan: Just realized this I guess makes Crazy Boys Get Money a Valentine's Day debut. Well, maybe it's happier than Red Roses, Old Horses?

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Attn: Thor!

2026-01-30T15:34:28Z

(Everyone else can just ignore this; this is specifically for the one who emailed me using the name Thor.)

Hey, sorry to be a bother, just responded to your email about a week ago and heard nothing back, and I’m just making sure my new email worked for you and things didn’t disappoint into the void! Let me know!

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Missing Monday Arisia

2026-01-19T13:46:27Z

Woke up with a sore throat. So mad. Trying to figure out how to get my wares without exposing other people to my germs, which the snow outside is not simplifying.

UGH.

EDIT: logistics sorted! Thank you, Arisia friends! T_T you are the best!

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lb_lee @ 2025-12-06T18:40:00

2025-12-07T02:46:03Z

Rogan: holy shit guys, the color version of Coming In or Staying Out came out GORGEOUS. Just Right Press did an amazing job and I will absolutely be hiring them again! I cannot wait to put it up for sale and show it off!

And it’s been the bestseller at MICE so far! I’ll be working a final shift at table 32 from 11-2 tomorrow on Sunday; be the first on your block to have some pink trans dongs!

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Jesus Clowns... SOON IN COLOR?

2025-11-19T23:19:42Z

Rogan: When Biff and I made Coming In or Staying Out, I originally made two versions of the files. There's the black and white version, which I printed, and then a purple/pink/white version, which became the ebook version. But that colored version was the one I originally planned for, the version I dreamed of printing via Risograph, basically a copier that specializes in printing in one or two colors. (Some people use it for fancier stuff, but those people perplex me.)

For almost two years, CISO sat around as I tried to find a Riso printer, figure out how much it would cost, only to keep getting distracted with things like becoming homeless, moving twice, paying double rent for a long period of time, etc. Also it's always awkward to do the, "are you okay with printing dongs?" conversation with a print shop.

But lo and behold! It looks like CISO will be getting a bubble gum pink and violet limited run of 30, courtesy of Just Right Press, a queer/furry-owned press in Providence, RI! I'm super-pumped about this!

Riso is cheap, by color printing standards, but the CISO color edition will still be quite a lot pricier than the black and white--probably around $22, compared to the B/W's $5. I don't know how well this will work out for me, so if the color CISO doesn't sell, 30 copies will be all there is. However, there's a reason I originally made CISO with the intent of making it in color; it gave me the freedom to use color for mood effects that is much harder to do with only black and white. I hope y'all like the results as much as I surely will!

Even more exciting, Just Write has not only bubble gum pink and violet among their colors, they also have burgundy, which means my next comics project will also likely get printed with them! Yeehaw!

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Poll and Patreon Stuff Delayed

2025-11-02T17:15:01Z

Had extremely busy weekend, then woke up sick. Will do usual poll and stuff when better. Thanks for patience.

*goes back to chugging tea and eating raw onion with honey*

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Fri., Oct. 24, 2025: We are presenting at the New England Graphic Medicine Summit!

2025-10-23T19:58:35Z

We are presenting a slideshow and talk on spirited/many-selved family portraiture at the New England Graphic Medicine Summit, on Friday, October 24, at 10 AM! Attendance can be virtual via Zoom or in-person at the Richard E. Griffin Academic Center, 670 Huntington Ave., Boston. Come say hi, and let's paint the con multi!

(Many thanks to dreamer_marie for being our test rehearsal audience!)

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LB will be at Watertown Zine Fest, tomorrow, Oct. 18, 11-4!

2025-10-18T02:13:45Z

On Saturday, Oct. 18, we are tabling at Watertown Zine Fest! It runs from 11-4, at the Watertown Public Library, 123 Main Street, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472. We have cranked out a bunch of paper-only zines, including our headspace essays, queer short stories, and a 32-page Mori/Rawlin comic, Xenogals! Come drop by and check us out!

On Friday, October 24, we will also be New England Graphic Medicine Summit. 10-11 AM, giving a presentation on Many-Selved Portraiture. Located at MCPHS University on Longwood Avenue, but online attendance is also possible! Come see us show off many-selved artistic efforts! There'll be a slideshow!

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Web Ban Circumvention: Go Free

2025-10-06T16:06:21Z

Rogan: In my post about a physical newsletter, I forgot another thing we’ve been considering doing to circumvent the bans: make our digital work free and run it on donations like LiberaPay.

( Read more... )

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Scribbles and Bits: the Newsletter?

2025-10-04T18:19:02Z

As many of you know, within the past three months, we've been dealing with a lot of crackdowns on our work online. Our blog is unviewable in Mississippi and our #1 bestseller, All in the Family, got kicked off itch.io. This has nothing to do with the works themselves (oh no, a minor might read our very adult essay about TAXES and BUSINESS EXPENSES!) but wealthy, powerful people trying to control others.

As annoyed as we are by this, we are not surprised. We've seen this coming for years, we have a plan, and we want to hear how YOU feel about it, fans and readers!

( We're gonna arty like it's 1999! )

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Many-Selved-Portraiture at New England Graphic Medicine Summit!

2025-09-21T02:36:53Z

Hey guys! Friday, October 24th will be the New England Graphic Medicine Summit, and I'm gonna be giving a presentation! Remember when I was gathering up all those many-selved family portraits? THEIR TIME HAS COME!

But now that I'm looking back at all those portraits I accumulated almost a year ago, jeez, I realize I have no memory of whether anyone's consent was given. So: if you've given me a selves-portrait, please let me know whether you'd be okay with me using it at a live event in Boston, which will then be recorded (and probably put on Youtube). Those of you I have contact info for, I've gone to poke!

For other folks who missed all this a year ago: please, send us your selves-portraits! All mediums and skill levels welcome, all interpretations of “family portrait” and “many-selved.” Please give a date and artist/s name for attribution and citation purposes. You can link in the comments below or send them to us at loonybrain at healthymultiplicity.com

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Story and Essay Back-ups Because of Fuckin' Mississippi

2025-09-02T02:50:23Z

Due to Dreamwidth having to block views from all Mississippi users, I'm going to have to fucking take every single story and essay on this damn website and mirror and back it up on healthymultiplicity.com.

Mississippi's requirements are strict:

This act applies only to a digital service provider who provides a digital service that:
(a) Connects users in a manner that allows users to socially interact with other users on the digital service;
(b) Allows a user to create a public, semi-public or private profile for purposes of signing into and using the digital service; and
(c) Allows a user to create or post content that can be viewed by other users of the digital service, including sharing content on:
(i) A message board;
(ii) A chat room; or
(iii) A landing page, video channel or main feed that presents to a user content created and posted by other users.

So this includes Dreamwidth (and all other Livejournal clones), Fanfiction.net, an AOL Instant Messenger chat room, a forum, presumably Patreon and itch.io... but oddly probably not 4chan, since that has no profiles! healthymultiplicity.com is kinda my only option, because the site allows for no social interaction.

I am very sorry for the inconvenience. Having my work accessible to the public is extremely important to me, but man, the past couple months have been pretty rough when it comes to politicians and payment processors getting between me and my willing readers!

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Returning Home and Claiming the Center

2025-08-17T18:50:19Z

(all quotes are from Akwaeke Emezi, "claiming the center: Akwaeke Emezi," Locus: the Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Field #773 June 2025, pg. 58-59)

In terms of talking about my work, people often take the spiritual side as an allegory or a metaphor for something else--sometimes for queerness or transness, but for me, it's not. [...] When I use Western language to describe myself, I'm translating. Even when I call myself queer, or I call myself trans, I'm stepping away from my actual Igbo spiritual center, and using Western language, and translating to make myself more accessible. It's honestly a form of masking, because indigenous spirituality is illegible in a Western context. Because of white supremacy, but also because the West does not acknolwedge indigenous realities as real...

( On returning home, and how the work of Akwaeke Emezi opened the door for us. )

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I Got Paid!

2025-08-12T16:28:55Z

Rogan: got my money from itch.io, which is a weight off my mind! Whew.

There’s been a big pushback against payment processors for this. We ourself are gearing up to send angry letters. If you want to know more about how/who to call, scripts to follow, and ways to badger payment processors of extralegally deciding what you can buy/sell on the Internet, check out https://yellat.money/ and https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/

These links have stuff for non-Americans too! I imagine you guys are EVEN MADDER about a few American companies saying what you can or can’t buy in your own country! Let’s give ‘em merry hell! It worked for the Australian Biblebangers, let’s see if it works for us!

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Somerville Yart Sale (Saturday, Aug. 9)

2025-08-03T16:28:54Z

I made the listing of AllFam invisible except to me and previous buyers. The takedown notice is still publicly accessible, but at least it won't be scaring off any potential customers. (And I've now finally accepted the inevitable and created the "pedojacket" tag so I can have an easy way to track shit like this happening to me.)

In better news, we're going to be a part of the Somerville YART Sale event with Joshua Porterfield! We'll have a table of art, zines, books, and FORBIDDEN OBJECTS in front of 68 Bonair At., Somerville, MA 02145.

Event Date: Saturday, August 9th, 12–6 PM (weather date Sunday, August 10th)
Event Map: https://somervilleartscouncil.org/yart-sale/yart/ (check out more people selling art as yard sales!)
More info anytime at: www.somervilleartscouncil.org/yart-sale

I have also updated my Events Page, which I just realized a lot of people may not know the existence of. (Didn't help that I myself neglected it a lot during the early years of COVID.)

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Wow, I hate this.

2025-08-02T03:08:20Z

Today I just realized that All in the Family ISN'T just plain invisible or "Error 404" when people reach it. People see the takedown notice and since I very obviously don't do photorealistic art, kinda the only conclusion to draw is that my work is "Content glorifying sexual violence" or "minors, minor-presenting, or suggested minors in a sexual context."

This is incredibly degrading. This might be more humiliating than getting shadowbanned from Gumroad for Cultiples, and that was pretty damn crummy.

I make mental health work about sexual trauma. It's bad for business to have "minors in a sexual context" as code for "child pornography" anywhere near me professionally, even if you ignore that this is, again, a memoir about how incest fucked me up. The whole point is that it's awful! Josie Riesman called it "one of the most brutal and engaging comics I’ve ever read." Tarun Athmika did a whole fucking paper on the politics of implication in (among other things) All in the Family, and how bans of discussion of oppression supports that oppression! Holy shit, he couldn't have been more prescient had he tried!

I've still heard nothing from itch.io. I ordered my payout a week ago and it's still "in review." I don't know if I'm going to get paid. The idea that I might get pedojacketed, AGAIN, for totally nonsense reasons is...

I don't know what it is.

This never used to happen to me until 2023, and now it's becoming normal to me. This is just life to me now. And I feel stupidly naive that it took this long to happen; it feels like it was always going to.

At least I can take comfort that the Banned Book Sale is going well. But god, I would've way rathered never throwing one.

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Where to buy the AllFam Ebook in the meantime

2025-07-30T20:35:59Z

Thank you again to everyone who's contributed to the Banned Book Sale; I didn't expect the response and am deeply grateful. I've sold like a dozen books in a week, which is super-unusual for me. Thank you!

Until I hash things out with itch.io (no response yet), you can buy the AllFam ebook (and the script version) on Payhip. I am slowly uploading all my ebooks there, starting with the stuff most likely to be banned. I have everything copied over now except for the Megapack which is... by far the largest and may take a bit.

EDIT: okay, Megapack should be up now too. Whew.

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